Valentine
*Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s*. Mercy is hard in a place like this … It’s February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town’s men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. In the early hours of the morning after Valentine’s Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead’s ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field—an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive, the stage is set for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences. *Valentine* is a haunting exploration of the intersections of vio...
Author: Wetmore Elizabeth
ISBN: 9780062913265
Year of publication: 2020
Genre: Thriller
Number of pages: 309
Reading time: 5 h. 9 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
